Home : Book details : Book description

Description of  Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 20)

9004392408 pdf The Head edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk offers cross-linguistic studies on the body part term head investigated as a source domain in conceptualization. It focuses on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change.